# ملح
## Arabic
### Etymology

* Root
* م ل ح (m l ḥ)
* 8 terms
Inherited from Proto-West Semitic *milḥ-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /milħ/

### Noun

مِلْح • (milḥ) m (plural أَمْلَاح (ʔamlāḥ) or مِلَاح (milāḥ) or مِلَح (milaḥ) or مِلْحَة (milḥa))
* salt
* salt water
* wit, intellect
* knowledge
* scholar
* beauty, loveliness, grace
* oath

#### Descendants

* Gulf Arabic: ملح (milḥ)
* Moroccan Arabic: ملح
* Maltese: melħ
* Hindi: मिल्ह (milha)

### Adjective

مِلْح • (milḥ)
* salty, saline
    Synonym: مَالِح (māliḥ)

### References

* Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ملح”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), Paris: Maisonneuve et C$^{ie}$
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “ملح”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ملح”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
* Wehr, Hans (1979) “ملح”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

## Hijazi Arabic

* Root
* م ل ح
* 1 term

### Etymology

From Arabic مِلْح (milḥ, “salt”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /milħ/

### Noun

ملح • (milḥ) m
* salt

## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic مِلْح (milḥ, “salt”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mlaħ/, /malħ/

### Noun

مْلَح or مَلْح • (mlaḥ or malḥ) m (plural ملحة (malḥa))
* salt

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِلْح (milḥ, “salt”).

### Noun

ملح • (milh)
* salt, a common substance chemically consisting of sodium chloride
    Synonyms: طوز (tuz), نمك (nemek)
* (chemistry) salt, one of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base
* (figuratively) wit, intellect, knowledge, learning
* (figuratively) salt of the earth, a decent, dependable, unpretentious person

#### Derived terms

* ملح الصاغه (milhü's-saga, “borax”)
* ملح بارود (milh-i barud, “saltpetre”)
* ملح حامض (milh hamiz, “supersalt”)
* ملح موحد (milh mahad, “protosalt”)
* ملحی (milhî, “saline”)
* ملحیت (milhiyet, “saltness”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: milh

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “milh”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3223
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ملح”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1220
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sal”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1502
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ملح”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4888
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ملح”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1970

## South Levantine Arabic

* Root
* م ل ح
* 3 terms

### Etymology

From Arabic مِلْح (milḥ, “salt”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /malħ/, [ˈma.l(ɪ)ħ]
* IPA: /milħ/, [ˈmi.l(ɪ)ħ]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

### Noun

ملح • (milḥ, malḥ) m
* salt

#### See also

* مالح (māleḥ, “salty”)